The Lonely Planet guide says that Belgrade is not a beautiful city. "Belgrade is not a beautiful city - even Belgraders agree on that - but it is an interesting city that's full of hedonism, passion and finesse. Architecturally, it's a mishmash of two centuries of grandiose buildings and ugly Soviet-style concrete blocks." And who took out the #5 spot ...

I am a British citizen, who has had the pleasure of living and working in the Balkans for over 3 years. There is no avoiding the fact that this is an exciting, enticing, endearing, wonderful place that is also often frustrating as hell, but is always facinating. As to danger, I tell people honestly that I would be in more ...

Pozdrav iz Srbije!  My name is David Faber. I'm on a month-long trip to former Yugoslavia and Karl Haudbourg asked me to write something regarding safety in Serbia (I went ahead and expanded the subject to include the rest of former Yugoslavia). I'm honored to be able to offer my views on the subject. Each of the three times that I've ...

Have you seen recent article of NG about Serbia? It’s called Serbs face the future, and it was photographed by Christopher Anderson, a Magnum and VII photographer. It’s sort of a… crap. The photos themselves would probably be fine, if I wasn’t a Serb living in Serbia. Basically, the message they send is: “Serbia is a dirty, miserable, desparate, depressive, lonely, ...

Just last week we wrote that Novi Sad Exit festival 2009 was one of the most successful Exit Festival ever, and that seems to be true. I first came to EXIT Festival in 2005 and from the moment I arrived I knew I had discovered something very special indeed. This year was my 4th EXIT Festival and was in my opinion ...

A teenage girl from Staffordshire (West Midlands region of England), Kate Brookes, just came back from her holiday to Serbia, Hungary, and Czech Republic. "So recently, and by recently I mean yesterday I came back from a holiday to Serbia. Well, it was Hungary and Czech Rep. too but anyway.. now I’m back. Serbia was pretty darn awesome. I went ...

Maria Almeida never ceases to amaze me. We recently wrote about Maria Almeida, the producer of Go East party in Brazil - a party exclusively dedicated to music from the Balkans - noting that it's crazy to think that people are dancing to music from Serbia, in Rio de Janeiro. Rio, and just last weekend in São Paulo. The fun ...

Just yesterday we talked about two guys from Czech Republic hitchhiking in Serbia. They pointed out that most Serbian people speak English. "Serbian people are throughout nice, mostly they speak English." The latest example comes from Rachaelr -- a Brit who is visiting Serbia with her husband. "Belgrade is nice, friendly people, most speak English which is handy for us." ...

I have a hard time finding someone who was at Novi Sad Exit festival 2009 and was not absolutely thrilled to be there. A Brit, Greg, is complaining about Exit main stage bars. "The wine came out of giant plastic bottles, the beer came out with a half pint of head, and not particularly cold, and the energy drinks were ...

Two guys, Petr Švásta and Michal Guzej, are hitchhiking from Czech Republic to India. They put up a blog post ' Serbia - cool country' discussing their hitchhiking experience in Serbia. "Serbian people are throughout nice, mostly they speak English and are always helpful… However, they do not react to hitchhiking…grrr." Petr and Mickael story is also a funny story ...